tomjtx;169120 Wrote: > even if I continue to use Itunes. I really liked iTunes (especially as it was so much better than MusicMatch, which my first iPod came with - what a shocker that was!). However, its increasing focus on its music store (which I will never use - DRM, low bitrate...) put me off a bit.
The move to SlimServer was surprisingly pleasant - all of a sudden I could use proper tagging with classical. I then Rockboxed my iPod, using SyncBack to sync it, and it sounds much better now, using FLACs. I'm also well into Mozilla's Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client - both comfortably better than the MS equivalents. Foobar is a great music player. All of these open source and freeware products are a bit more hassle to configure, but once you've done it, you have things the way you want it, and have total control. It's really liberating. So my advice is to dump iTunes. I now have a better iPod, better syncing, proper tagging, a better music player, a free music file system and no wretched nagging every day when a new version is out. Not to mention a Squeezebox! A no-brainer for me :) Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31480 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
